The more famous variety of cantaloupe with green flesh is the black eyebrow. This kind of cantaloupe shape ellipse, skin has more than a dozen dark green longitudinal stripes pattern, like a beautiful woman's eyebrows, and thus get this name. This cantaloupe melon flesh green, fine and juicy, high sugar content, sticky mouth and sticky hands, aroma, sweet and refreshing, after eating the aroma around the mouth, after a long time.

Common varieties of cantaloupe

The cantaloupe varieties amount to more than 180, and the shapes are elliptical, ovoid, braided hammer, and long stick-shaped and so on. The following for you to introduce a few of the more common:

1, Xizhou honey

Xizhou honeydew melon is characterized by light hemp green, green road, netting fine all. Flesh orange-red, flesh thick, sweetness, meat thick fine quality, sweet and crisp, water enough, thin skin, sweetness and crispness than the general honeydew melon, sugar content of 20%. Xizhou honeydew melon is not only delicious, but also nutritious, high medicinal value, has a very high commercialization value. It is the best one produced in the east of Xinjiang.

2, Donghu melon

Donghu melon is a kind of cantaloupe, large and oval. The net pattern is beautiful, taste like pear, sweet and crisp, radiating an attractive milk, fruit and wine aroma. It is located in Shanshan County, the last habitat of the ancient Loulan people in the Turpan Basin and the edge of Lop Nur. Shanshan County is the real hometown of grapes and cantaloupe. Shanshan County is rich in light and heat resources, large temperature difference between day and night, arid and little rain, the climate is unique, the production of cantaloupe quality, beautiful appearance, bright color, pure taste, honey sweet syrupy people, crispy and delicious.

3, black eyebrows

Black eyebrows oval shape, the skin has more than a dozen dark green longitudinal stripes pattern, like a beautiful woman's eyebrows, melon flesh green, fine and juicy, high sugar content, sticky mouth sticky hands, aroma, sweet and refreshing.

4, red heart crisp

Hami melon cooked at the end of July, in addition to the Arabian Kuzard melon, are netting thick skin melon, its representative varieties for the Guri red heart crisp, is the Turpan Basin melon varieties in the best. Fruit shape oval, apricot yellow skin color, compound green spots, mesh fine. Orange-red color, crispy and juicy, with cream flavor, strong fragrance, after eating the fragrance around the mouth, after a long time.

5, yellow eggs

Yellow eggs in the melon is an early variety. The rind is golden yellow, ripe with lines or no lines, melon flesh has white, light green. The color is golden yellow, the shape of the garden is small, the meat is like sheep's fat, fluffy and sweet, indoor placement of a melon full of house fragrance. Yellow eggs because of its earlier maturity, people give it hope than other melons on some more, after eating the after-smell around the mouth, the sweetness of the long-lasting, and more people year after year, never tired of looking forward to its ripening, looking forward to its arrival, eating its flesh, tasting the delicious.

6, snow red

Snow red is the Xinjiang Hami melon research center bred thick-skinned melon, is an early to mid-maturity varieties, fruit development period of about 40 days, oval fruit, white pericarp, occasional sparse mesh, ripe white red, light red flesh, tender flesh, crunchy and crisp, melting in the mouth, taste like pears, the center of the refractive index of sugar 15% or more, a single melon weight of about 2.5 kg.

7, Gashi melon

Gashi melon because of its origin in Gashi County and named, has more than 1500 years of cultivation history, its varieties, divided into early, middle and late three types of seasons are up to more than 30 kinds. Gashi melon has a long history of cultivation, its shape is well-proportioned and full, with thick flesh and fine texture, sweet and crisp, juicy, thin skin, sugar content and other characteristics of the melon in the whole of Xinjiang, becoming the best of all kinds of domestic fruits and melons.